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Fighting Assad one strongly worded statement at a time

28 May 10:40am

Filed under: Ban Ki Moon, Bashar Al Assad, Houla Massacre, Kofi Annan, Syria, United Nations, Violence

This weekend’s massacre in Houla, Syria, is one of those stories that invites but doesn’t require hyperbole. 108 people killed, 32 of them children. 300 more injured, in an attack that included shelling, guns, and knives.

This is pretty much the only picture in the set from AP on the massacre which we could publish. The rest were just too awful.

This took place during a ceasefire, while Syria is subject to the scrutiny of United Nations observers.

Kofi Annan is trying to hold together with duct tape a “six point peace plan”, and is headed for Damascus in the wake of the latest atrocity under the Bashar al-Assad regime. This plan was signed off by Assad on March 27.

Today there are reports gunmen in the town have been positioned with orders to shoot civilians who try to talk with the UN Observers.

Annan and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today released this:

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James says:

07:56pm | 30/05/12

I wrote: It would be helpful a the system, by which site visitors can express approval or disapproval of various posts, could be added and extended so those posts which are most disapproved of are ‘demoted’ so that only smaller excerpts with links to all the content elsewhere are shown… Read more »
Dave says:

05:17pm | 30/05/12

Wow a cheap shot article that offers no solutions or even suggestions. All this from someone with zero real knowledge of what the situation is on the ground. Boy it would be good to be a journalist and spend your live sitting around drinking wine and sleging others and never… Read more »

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